Dave Minihane

Irish rugby supporter, slight obsession with cycling, reluctant runner. Dad of 2. Love good food, good wine and a bit of travel.

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

David Minihane fundraising for Breast Cancer Ireland in Cork City Marathon 2022 https://t.co/ATsd4hpqzz

[Daniel Austin @_Dan_Austin]

Just to be clear, then. FIFA:

1) can't possibly intervene when Iran are forced to move, a referee is denied a visa, or fans are barred from the USA

2) can absolutely intervene when a decision goes against the USA that Donald Trump doesn't like

Smashing. All know where we stand

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

In only 4 years the 80s will be 50 years ago

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Mick Lynch on Nigel Farage:

"He's going to unleash a torrent of racism & division.. putting us into the dark ages"

ML calls out the Telegraph:

"The Telegraph seems to be preparing itself to become a fully signed up affiliate of Reform & all the racism & disunity it will cause"

[Hasan alrabay @HasanEssam29636]

One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.

Gaza in 2023 and 2026!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.

70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.

Oil dropped 12%.

The trade made $125 million in profit.

Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.

$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.

$920 million placed before this one.

Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.

What kind of war is this?

This is more like a trading desk with an army.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

This👇is quite extraordinary, showing how much Trump is uniting Europeans on all sides 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 him

Elly Schlein, Leader of Italy's largest opposition party, (herself 50/50🇮🇹🇺🇸) furiously condemns Trump's attacks on her opponent Meloni. The whole Chamber stands up to applaud the whole time. My English s/t👇

"Italy is a free and sovereign country. Our Constitution is clear - Italy repudiates war. No foreign Head of State has the right to attack, threaten or disrespect our country or government. We are opponents in this Chamber, but we are all Italian citizens and Italian MPs. We are asking for unanimous condemnation of these attacks and threats"

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Larry @lryansport]

Northampton Saints have now won more league games at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium than Tottenham have in 2026 😇

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Why do our broadcasters cover live these rambling incoherent BS Trump meetings with his sycophants? They are propaganda not news. If they are to be shown live there should be real time rebuttal of the lies. And perhaps the occasional pointing out of the many many promises made at previous such meetings or deals, agreements, resolutions which never materialised. Just as Trump is played by Putin so the media are played by Trump.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn't become King. It's the Palace that becomes a circus"

French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time

My English s/t 👇

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

@Fiona_Forde_Irl Anglers

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

What has Prendergast got?? Dreadful first 20mins. Looks lost out there. #IREvITA

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

@Mishi_2210 680

[Jerry Thornton @jerrythornton]

This is going to stick with me forever

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

Happy Cristmas from Ireland
#NFLonNetflix

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

@RassieRugby How Matt Williams gets air time is a mystery! We have a host of knowledgeable analysts and pundits in Ireland and I don't understand why we have to listen to his BS on the national airwaves.

[Eamon Melia @EamonMelia]

The total funding for the best athletes in Ireland for 2025 comes to €654,000.
The total funding for Greyhound racing for 2025 comes to €19,800,000.
What could €19,800,000 do for athletics in schools ???

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

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[Dublin Airport @DublinAirport]

Seeing as we’re just renaming stuff now…

[Dave Minihane @daveybaa]

@DublinAirport @VisitQatar @qatarairways #DohaDreams